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- Rhonda Gheen
- P.O. Box 946
- Joseph, OR 97846
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- Rhonda Gheen lives and works in a mountain cabin in northeastern Oregon. She began selling her one-
- of-a-kind sculptures as her full-time career in 1978. Prior to that, she received a BA in Art/Geology. She
- has also earned a certificate for the study of colored gemstones from the Gemological Institute of America.
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- Ms. Gheen's main emphasis has been fantasy, totem, and mythical animals and dinosaurs, themes she has
- loved since childhood. The pieces are individually hand-modeled and sculpted from stoneware clay. The
- colors are stoneware glazes and 22K gold luster glaze fired in a kiln for a permanent finish. The precious
- and semi-precious stones are set after the last firing.
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- She has shown her work mainly through galleries and science fiction conventions since 1980. Her work
- has won numerous awards and the hearts of collectors from coast to coast.
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